Erneuerbare Energien, Unternehmertum und Management (REEM) MSc

Our unique course blends project evaluation techniques and business enterprise with awareness of the potential of renewable energy technologies.

This multi-disciplinary MSc is for both practising professionals and graduates. You'll come from a diverse range of disciplines including:

• geography
• planning
• surveying
• business
• economics
• social policy
• politics
• product design
• industrial management
• environmental management
• physical or earth science
• engineering

Our MSc Renewable Energy course supports those without prior technical education in energy. Bring your curiosity for innovation and design and learn how to identify opportunities in the renewable energy field. Together we'll concentrate on some of the biggest challenges we face in the sector. We'll also help develop your enterprise, culture, and capability.

We're at the forefront of carbon neutrality and net zero research, with a strong focus on the benefits of renewable energy.

You'll have access to the tools and infrastructure of Newcastle University while working amongst our alumni, policy and industrial partners and staff. You’ll also have access to the renewable energy clusters in North East England.

Alumni

You'll work and learn amongst our well-established alumni and graduates. Many have become a big influence in the policy and innovation environment, including:

• Andrew Clark, Energy Programme Lead, North East Local Economic Partnership
• Ravneet Kaur, Innovation Manager, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

Other graduates have also gone on to establish renewable energy start-ups, including:

• Ortus Energy (UK)
• Creeds Energy (Nigeria)

A Global Top 125 university (QS World University Rankings 2023), Newcastle is home to 29,000 students from 140 countries.

A founding member of the Russell Group, we are one of only 19 universities in the world – and just three in the UK – to achieve a five-plus QS Star rating for overall excellence (2022).

We can trace our origins back to the School of Medicine and Surgery, established in 1834.

Today, we combine world-leading research with a world-class academic experience.

A global leader with strengths in ageing and health, data, energy, cities, and the creative arts, we’re pioneering solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the world. In the UK’s Research Excellence Framework 2021, 42% of our research was scored as world-leading.

Through 5-star teaching (QS Stars 2022), we educate for life. Students are challenged and supported to learn from world-class experts across more than 185 undergraduate and 300 postgraduate degrees.

Student experience

Students are supported to reach their full potential by our Student Health and Wellbeing services that provide counselling, mental health, disability and specialist learning support, as well as financial support and faith and spirituality support.

We’ve developed an online Academic Skills Kit to support students in becoming effective independent learners.

Our Students' Union is at the heart of the Newcastle experience, offering more than 180 student-run societies and over 60 sports clubs.

A top student city

Multicultural, vibrant and friendly, Newcastle is the capital of North East England – the University’s city-centre campus is at its heart.

A global top 50 and UK top 10 student city, it’s also one of the most affordable in the UK (QS Best Student Cities, 2023).

Newcastle offers top-class sports, a vibrant arts scene, great shopping and exciting nightlife. It’s also close to beautiful countryside and award-winning beaches.